36-528: The Adelphi or New Adelphi was an English literary journal founded by John Middleton Murry and published between 1923 and 1955. The first issue appeared in June 1923, with issues published monthly thereafter. Between August 1927 and September 1930 it was renamed the New Adelphi and issued quarterly. Murry was editor until 1930, when he handed over to Sir Richard Rees and the monthly issues resumed. Rees
72-596: A literary magazine published in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . John Middleton Murry John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 – 12 March 1957) was an English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic , Murry
108-556: A Summer School in August 1936 that was stellar: George Orwell spoke on "An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas" on 4 August, with Rayner Heppenstall in the chair. Other speakers were Steve Shaw, Herbert Read , Grace Rogers, J. Hampden Jackson, N. A. Holdaway (a Marxist theorist and schoolmaster, and a director of the centre), Geoffrey Sainsbury, Reinhold Niebuhr , Karl Polanyi , John Strachey , Plowman and Common. By 1937
144-648: A clear victor in the sense that, in London during the 1930s, Eliot had taken the centre of the critical stage. Murry reviewed for The Westminster Gazette and then The Times Literary Supplement , from 1912. Initially he was much influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson , which he disavowed in 1913. He was one of an identified group of post- World War I critics that included Richard Aldington , Robert Graves , Aldous Huxley , Herbert Read , and Edgell Rickword . Murry gave Huxley an editorial job at The Athenaeum . Murry also helped encourage British interest in
180-520: A daughter, Katherine Violet Middleton Murry who became a writer and published Beloved Quixote: The Unknown Life of John Middleton Murry in 1986, and a son, John Middleton Murry Jr. , who became a writer under the names of Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. There were also two children from the third marriage. Aldous Huxley portrayed him as "Denis Burlap" in Point Counter Point (1928). He
216-499: A monthly, it was published by Stephen Swift & Co . Under the name The Blue Review , it was published by Martin Secker . The painter Anne Estelle Rice was one of its chief illustrators. According to arts historian Roger Neill: The aesthetic concept of "rhythm" – harmony in nature, vigour and directness – provided the connective tissue, not only between two Scottish Colourists (Fergusson and Peploe, plus Rice), but also between
252-587: A more conventional arrangement with Murry running the farm as a commercial enterprise. He wrote an account of his time at Lodge Farm in the book "Community Farm" which was published in 1953 and was illustrated by his brother, the artist Richard Murry. Murry had a Marxist phase in the early 1930s. With his third marriage in 1931, he moved within Norfolk , from South Acre to the Old Rectory, Larling , and wrote in two weeks his The Necessity of Communism . It
288-631: A quarterly until after the Spring 1912 issue, when it began to publish monthly. The final issue under the name Rhythm was published in March 1913; in May 1913, the magazine resumed publication under the name The Blue Review . After publishing additional issues in June and July 1913, the magazine then ceased publication. The magazine, sometimes referred to as a " little magazine ", was focused primarily on literature, music, art, and theatre. Throughout its history,
324-456: A return to the land. According to David Goldie, Murry and the Adelphi , and Eliot and The Criterion , were in an important rivalry by the mid-1920s, with competing definitions of literature, based respectively on romanticism allied to liberalism and a subjective approach, and a form of classicism allied to traditionalism and a religious attitude. In this contest, Goldie says, Eliot emerged
360-402: A sanctimonious exploiter of Mansfield's memory who treated her poorly during their association. Non-Fiction Fiction Verse As editor Rhythm (literary magazine) Rhythm (briefly known as The Blue Review ) was a literary , arts, and critical review magazine published in London, England, from 1911 to 1913. The first issue of Rhythm was a summer 1911 edition. It was
396-523: A shared house. Beginning in 1901, Murry was educated at Christ's Hospital , where he received a scholarship. There, he and friends purchased a jellygraph machine for a newspaper he was the editor-in-chief of, and at 18 he became the editor of the school's magazine. When he was 16 and at Christ's Hospital, he was awarded the Charles Lamb medal for an essay entitled "Literature and Journalism". He also attended Brasenose College, Oxford . There he met
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#1732791834207432-530: A short-lived magazine together, The Signature . In 1931, after a complex evolution of the relationship, Murry wrote in Son of Woman one of the first and most influential posthumous assessments of Lawrence as a man. Medically certified as unfit for military service, with pleurisy and possible tuberculosis , during the war years he was part of the Garsington circle of Ottoline Morrell . In 1919, Murry became
468-513: A socialist, and later pacifist, monthly; Murry had founded it in 1923 as a literary journal ( The New Adelphi , 1927–30). Rees edited it from 1930; Plowman took on the role in 1938. The Adelphi was closely aligned with the Independent Labour Party ; Jack Common worked for it as circulation promoter and assistant editor in the 1930s. Throughout this period, Murry's then close friend and protege, Guernsey-born G. B. Edwards ,
504-456: Is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield , whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot , and for his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence . Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work. John Middleton Murry was born in Peckham , London, on 6 August 1889 to John Murry (1860/1–1947), a clerk in
540-523: Is followed by the upward ascent to spiritual life. Murry vividly narrates this exploration as a spiritual conversion (in his 1929 book GOD ) —what he describes as a "desolation" followed by "illumination"—after the death of Katherine Mansfield (who had moved to G. I. Gurdjieff 's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man , where she died). In 1930 Max Plowman joined Murry and Sir Richard Rees in developing The Adelphi as
576-646: The 1930s. He had the manuscripts of nine or ten completed stories, and when an admirer wrote to ask if he would sell a manuscript, he would reply that some land adjoining his farm in Norfolk was on the market or that he needed a tractor, so would sell one for the amount he required. Plowman co-founded (in 1934) and ran the Adelphi Centre. It was an early commune , based on a farm in Langham, Essex bought by Murry. Short-lived in its original conception, it ran
612-706: The Inland Revenue, and Emily Wheeler (1869/70–1951). John Murry, a self-made man from an "impoverished and illiterate" background, prioritized his son's education. At the age of two, Murry was sent to the Roles Road Board School, and afterward attended the Bellendon Road Higher Grade Board School. His aunt, at the age of 11, called him a "little old man". By 1893, his parents moved from Peckham to East Dulwich , along with his mother's sister and mother, into
648-487: The Science of Metabiology . There, picking up certain concepts from his acquaintance George Santayana , Murry describes the project of Romanticism as one of inner exploration: The upshot of this discovery results in the highest degree of ethical awareness, "an immediate knowledge of what I am and may not do." The awareness of one being "really alone" in the universe, as he put it, marks the final point of discovery which
684-554: The commune had collapsed, and the house, 'The Oaks', was turned over to some 60 Basque refugee children under the auspices of the Peace Pledge Union ; they remained until 1939. In October 1942 Murry set up a new commune at Lodge Farm in the Suffolk village of Thelnetham. Murry purchased the farm and recruited fellow conscientious objectors to run the enterprise. The commune had mixed fortunes and it gradually reverted to
720-543: The editor of The Athenaeum , recently purchased by Arthur Rowntree . Under his editorship it was a literary review featuring work by T. S. Eliot , Virginia Woolf , Lytton Strachey , Clive Bell , and other members of the Bloomsbury Group . It lasted until 1921. It had enthusiastic support from E. M. Forster , who later wrote that "Here at last was a paper that was a pleasure to read and an honour to write for, and which linked up literature and life". Its fate
756-427: The endorsement of Arnold. When Murry died, Eliot wrote to Mary that 'a very warm affection existed between us'. Murry was married four times: first to Katherine Mansfield in 1918; after her death in 1923 he arranged the publishing or republishing of her works. In 1924 he married Violet Le Maistre, in 1932 Ada Elizabeth Cockbaine, and in 1954 Mary Gamble. With his second wife, Violet Le Maistre, he had two children:
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#1732791834207792-445: The magazine was edited by John Middleton Murry , who co-founded it with Michael Sadleir . Katherine Mansfield was the associate editor from June 1912 until the magazine folded. Its title was borrowed from a major painting of a female nude (a drawing of which appears on its front cover) by J. D. Fergusson who became its art editor. The magazine went through three separate publishers: it began with St Catherine Press ; when it became
828-538: The novel mirrors that of Lawrence and Murry. Murry appears as a character in Amy Rosenthal's D.H. Lawrence biodrama On the Rocks . In the 2008 Hampstead Theatre production Murry was played by Nick Caldecott with Ed Stoppard as Lawrence and Charlotte Emmerson as Mansfield. In Priest of Love (1981), he is portrayed by Mike Gwilym . In Leave All Fair (1985), he is portrayed by John Gielgud as
864-700: The work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky : his 1916 work Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Critical Study argued Dostoyevsky was an important novelist and philosophical thinker. Murry led the charge against Georgian poetry . A leader in the 16 May 1919 edition of The Athenaeum was an early example of a reasoned attack against the Georgian style of verse; and Murry coupled this with an adversarial attitude to The London Mercury edited by J. C. Squire . He reviewed quite harshly Siegfried Sassoon 's Counter-Attack in 1918, despite having helped him in 1917 to draft an anti-war piece for H. W. Massingham 's The Nation . In-house, however, he
900-586: The writer Joyce Cary , a lifelong friend. He met Katherine Mansfield at the end of 1911, through W. L. George . His intense relationship with her, her early death, and his subsequent allusions to it shaped both his later life and the attitudes (often hostile) of others to him. Leonard Woolf in his memoirs called Murry " Pecksniffian ". By 1933 his reputation "had touched bottom", and Rayner Heppenstall 's short book of 1934, John Middleton Murry: A Study in Excellent Normality , could note that he
936-514: The writers and artists involved with the magazine. This article relating to a magazine connected with the visual arts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . This article relating to a British magazine connected with culture is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on
972-505: Was "the best-hated man of letters in the country". Murry was editor of the literary magazine Rhythm from 1911 to 1913, and then The Blue Review . In 1913 an associate, the publisher Charles Granville of Stephen Swift Ltd, was found guilty of embezzlement and bigamy , and imprisoned. Some debts had been put in Murry's name, and their finances were seriously affected for the next six years. In 1914 he met D. H. Lawrence , and became an important supporter. The next year they started
1008-399: Was a Sponsor of the Peace Pledge Union , and editor of its weekly newspaper, Peace News , from 1940 to 1946. Murry's opinions during this period often provoked controversy. He angered many left-wingers (including George Orwell and Vera Brittain ) by arguing that Nazi Germany should be allowed to retain control of mainland Europe. Murry believed even though Nazi rule was tyrannical, it
1044-438: Was a regular contributor to the magazine. Thanks to Murry's support, Jonathan Cape commissioned Edwards to write a book on D.H. Lawrence but following Lawrence's death it was never completed. He moved to Norfolk ; to South Acre ; and then, with his third marriage in 1931, to the Old Rectory, Larling . Murry told Antony Alpers the biographer of Katherine Mansfield that K.M.'s manuscripts had all been "dispersed to collectors" in
1080-536: Was not master enough to award an essay competition prize to the then-unknown Herbert Read , over the wishes of George Saintsbury and Robert Bridges , who preferred the poet William Orton. F. R. Leavis admired and was influenced by Murry's early criticism; later he criticised Murry in the pages of Scrutiny , but continued to acknowledge a debt to him late in life. Murry gave his philosophy its fullest expression in his writings on Keats and Shakespeare and in an ambitiously titled volume, God: An Introduction to
1116-561: Was preferable to the horrors of total war . Murry later "renounced his pacifism in 1948 and...urged a preventative war against the Soviet Union, ending his life as a Conservative voter". Finally Murry's opposition to the Soviet Union was attacked by pro-Soviet elements in the peace movement. Murry's anti-feminism also drew criticism from feminist pacifists such as Brittain and Sybil Morrison . During this period Murry
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1152-591: Was succeeded by Max Plowman in 1938. The magazine included one or two stories per issue with contributions by Katherine Mansfield , A.A. Milne , D. H. Lawrence , H. E. Bates , Rhys Davies , G.B. Edwards and Dylan Thomas . The Adelphi published George Orwell 's " The Spike " in 1931 and Orwell contributed regularly thereafter, particularly as a reviewer; in the late 1930s/early 1940s, working class writers Jack Common and Jack Hilton also contributed. The name means "siblings" in Greek . This article about
1188-594: Was the model for Philip Surrogate in Graham Greene 's 1934 novel It's a Battlefield ; Greene did not know him personally. David Holbrook wrote that Gudrun and Gerald in Lawrence's Women in Love were based on Mansfield and Murry. D. H. Lawrence satirised him in a number of short stories. In Lawrence's novel Aaron's Rod (1922), the title character is based on Murry. The relationship between Lilly and Aaron in
1224-431: Was this identification as "mystical Marxist" that led Bert Trick (1889–1968) to introduce Dylan Thomas to Murry, in 1933. The occasion went well enough for Richard Rees to publish Thomas in the Adelphi . He supported the small Independent Socialist Party , a regional breakaway from the Independent Labour Party . Murry was an outspoken radical Christian and pacifist , writing The Necessity of Pacifism (1937). He
1260-416: Was to be merged into The Nation , which became The Nation and Athenaeum , in the period 1923 to 1930 edited by H. D. Henderson . In 1923 he became the founding editor of The Adelphi ( The New Adelphi , 1927–30), in association with Jack Common and Max Plowman . The magazine continued in various forms until 1948. It reflected his successive interests in Lawrence, an unorthodox Marxism, pacifism, and
1296-568: Was widely known as a Christian intellectual. He had in fact considered ordination as an Anglican priest, but gave up on it after a diagnosis in 1938 of Buerger's disease , coupled with doubts about his marriages (his third was then breaking up messily). His views converged with those of Eliot: he supported a type of elitism foreshadowed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's clerisy , and argued for by Matthew Arnold . In Christianity and Culture , Eliot partially supported Murry's reasoning from The Price of Leadership (1939), though stopping short of
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